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Old woman knitting / Vieille femme tricotant
Woman knitting near a window
Lost Art-ID
623602
Artist / Creator
Gogh, Vincent van
Birth
1853.03.30, Groot-Zundert (Nord-Brabant)
Death
1890.07.29, Auvers-sur-Oise
Title
Old woman knitting / Vieille femme tricotant
Additional title
Woman knitting near a window
Place of manufacture
Den Haag (The Hague)
Dating
January 1882
Object type
Group of reported objects
Material / Technique
Watercolour ; Paper
Height
33.00 cm
Width
26.00 cm
Provenance
Bought from the artist by H.G, Tersteeg, The Hague, January 1882; Auction ‘Collection H.G. Tersteeg‘, Pulchri Studio, The Hague, 19 and 20 Mai 1914, Nr. 95, Vieille femme tricotant; Artgallery Mettes & Co, The Haque; after 1918 Simon Cohn (1873-1936), Berlin; since 1936 Meta Cohn, née Löwenthal (1886-1942), Berlin; confiscated by the Nazis around 1942, probably by the Gestapo one day after Meta Cohn's deportation to Riga on 15 August 1942 from her flat; since then location unknown.
Literature / Source
Auktionskatalog H. G. Tersteeg 1914, Nr. 95 (Vieille femme tricotant); J.B. de la Faille, The Works of Vincent van Gogh. His Paintings and Drawings, 1970, Nr. F910a
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Alessandro Honert
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